htwillie

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by htwillie 3y ago
What took so long?
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by htwillie 3y ago
The answer that's always missing is what hardware can be disabled to prevent the data from being harvested/transmitted/available in the first place?
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by htwillie 8y ago
Kai's Photo Soap and Kai's Power Goo. Or anything by Kai. Especially the little tools like the texture explorer and fractal generator. The user interfaces were refreshingly unique.
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by htwillie 8y ago
Perhaps RSS wasn't built for the average user.
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by htwillie 8y ago
Why do you believe what you believe is true? Independant study? Easiest possible explanation? Herd effect? Fear of standing out? It's rare that you can change another persons mind. But you can try to understand why they believe what
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by htwillie 8y ago
Within the last year, a guy did a writeup on his DIY electrical panel circuit monitoring setup. It allowed him to very accurately measure power consumption of everything in his house, and he was able to trace a sudden and mysterious rise in
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by htwillie 8y ago
The Lumber Stretch here: http://www.modestomassagetherapy.com/stretching.html The second one, start off in a Jesus Christ pose, scoot your feet toward your butt while keeping your knees together. Then rotate your lower ha
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by htwillie 8y ago
After 3 decades of once or twice-a-year back injuries (that took a few weeks to heal), in 2015 it didn't ever get better. MRI revealed bulging discs and herniation causing sciatica (which was a first) which varied from a mild, deep but
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by htwillie 9y ago
"...that if someone disagrees with them, the person is just stupid or doesn't know enough." Believing that smart = right, thus, less smart = less right.
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by htwillie 9y ago
For any given approach, with a circular runway there's exactly one point tangent to the runway to land. Landing short or long isn't an option. Things are conventional because they tend to work well. And part of working well is b
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by htwillie 9y ago
> I don't see why a human has to do this. Because a human driving the plane has a vested interest in surviving the landing. A person who writes buggy landing software, or an operator "piloting" it from the ground can get a
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by htwillie 9y ago
Yeah - make a huge rotating disc of a runway that rotates at a constant speed, so the pilot can stick the landing at whatever radius has an angular velocity equal to groundspeed. Then slow down the disk enough to allow taxiing toward the ce
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by htwillie 10y ago
Don't take advice from anyone without skin in the game, for they have no tangible downside to being wrong.
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by htwillie 10y ago
I work with a lot of environmental data coming from disparate sources. .csv is like the lowest common denominator of data formats.
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by htwillie 10y ago
+1 for the No Agenda podcast, by John C. Dvorak and Adam C. Curry. They watch the news (so you don't have to!) and each week they de-construct the biggest stories from around the world, revealing the truths behind - and the motivations
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by htwillie 10y ago
The best "tool" available is the No Agenda Podcast. Hosts Adam and John present national and global issues as portrayed by mass media, and systematically DECONSTRUCT the stories. They not only highlight biases, but explore propag
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by htwillie 10y ago
noagenda.com